Morning, painted while some of the houses in the Piazza were still
occupied by people of fashion.]

[Footnote 120: London Spy, Tom Brown's comical View of London and
Westminster; Turner's Propositions for the employing of the Poor, 1678;
Daily Courant and Daily Journal of June 7, 1733; Case of Michael v.
Allestree, in 1676, 2 Levinz, p. 172. Michael had been run over by
two horses which Allestree was breaking in Lincoln's Inn Fields.
The declaration set forth that the defendant "porta deux chivals
ungovernable en un coach, et improvide, incante, et absque debita
consideratione ineptitudinis loci la eux drive pur eux faire tractable
et apt pur an coach, quels chivals, pur ceo que, per leur ferocite, ne
poientestre rule, curre sur le plaintiff et le noie."]

[Footnote 121: Stat. 12 Geo. I. c. 25; Commons' Journals, Feb. 25, March
2, 1725-6; London Gardener, 1712; Evening Post, March, 23, 1731. I have
not been able to find this number of the Evening Post; I therefore
quote it on the faith of Mr. Malcolm, who mentions it in his History of
London.]

[Footnote 122: Lettres sur les Anglois, written early in the reign of
William the Third; Swift's City Shower; Gay's Trivia. Johnson used to
relate a curious conversation which he had with his mother about giving
and taking the wall.]

[Footnote 123: Oldham's Imitation of the 3d Satire of Juvenal, 1682;
Shadwell's Scourers, 1690. Many other authorities will readily occur
to all who are acquainted with the popular literature of that and the
succeeding generation. It may be suspected that some of the Tityre
Tus, like good Cavaliers, broke Milton's windows shortly after the
Restoration. I am confident that he was thinking of those pests of
London when he dictated the noble lines:

"And in luxurious cities, when the noise
Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers,
And injury and outrage, and when night
Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons
Of Belial, flown With innocence and wine."]

[Footnote 124: Seymour's London.]

[Footnote 125: Angliae Metropolis, 1690, Sect. 17, entitled, "Of the new
lights"; Seymour's London.]

[Footnote 126: Stowe's Survey of London; Shadwell's Squire of Alsatia;
Ward's London Spy; Stat. 8 & 9 Gul. III. cap. 27.]

[Footnote 127: See Sir Roger North's account of the way in which Wright
was made a judge, and Clarendon's account of the way in which Sir George
Savile was made a peer.]

[Footnote 128: The sources